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Daryl Homer and Jeff Spear Earn Top-32 Results in Budapest

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – London Olympians Daryl Homer (Bronx, N.Y.) and Jeff Spear (Wynantskill, N.Y.) each advanced to the table of 32 at the Budapest Saber World Cup in Hungary on Saturday.

Homer began the tournament exempt from the preliminary rounds as the 11th seed in the competition, but was nearly upset by George Iancu (ROU) before winning the bout, 15-14. In the table of 32, Homer ended up on the other end of a one-touch bout with a 15-14 loss to Byung Yul Hwang (KOR).

Spear advanced through the pools and preliminary rounds on Friday to qualify as the 48th seed in the table of 64 where he defeated Aliaksei Likhacheuski (BLR), 15-7. Spear lost his next bout to 2013 Senior World Champion Veniamin Reshetnikov (RUS), 15-8.